[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #18547: Add rel="nofollow" to reply to comments link

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#18547: Add rel="nofollow" to reply to comments link
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 Reporter:  pearsonified  |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  reopened
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Comments      |     Version:  3.2.1
 Severity:  minor         |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  close         |
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Changes (by nacin):

 * milestone:   => Awaiting Review


Comment:

 Howdy guys,

 I didn't agree with #10550 at the time it went in. I didn't see enough
 evidence that it was the right thing to do. Later, #16881 brought along
 more evidence and arguments. That said, we did fix this in #16893. So
 let's discuss where we are now.

 Processing time is nada either way, so let's scratch that as an argument.
 Here's the evidence as I see it currently: nofollow means search engines
 won't crawl the links, reducing server load. But meta tags means that you
 won't have a penalty for having nofollow on internal links.

 Two follow-ups then:

 One: I'm not sure if that penalty is real.

 Two: Do search engines really not follow nofollow links, or do they follow
 them and just decline to index them?

 Thinking we should literally ask Cutts what is most appropriate for a
 sizable portion of the web, and implement it. Short of that, we probably
 should stick with the current status quo.

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